“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
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100 Short Quotes
A short introduction
Short quotes leave more room for the reader. Fewer words. More air. They fit a poster without shrinking the type into a paragraph.
This collection is a hundred brief lines — some only a handful of words — from people who knew how to stop talking. You will find stoics, poets, coaches, and a few proverbs that survived because they were easy to carry.
Use them when you need something you can remember while walking. Use them when a long speech would miss.
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If you like a line, copy it. If you want it on a wall, generate. Short quotes do not need much from you except attention.
A short quote is also easier to remember when your hands are full. That is why people put them on lock screens. FOURQuoteDesigns is built for this length: four designs, no watermark, author still on the poster. Pick the one that leaves air around the words, then live with it for a week.
100 quotes
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The best answer to anger is silence.”
Marcus Aurelius
“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”
Marcus Aurelius
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“How soon will time cover all things.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.”
Marcus Aurelius
“People exist for one another. You can instruct them or endure them.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
Marcus Aurelius
“What does not transmit light creates its own darkness.”
Marcus Aurelius
“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Anger cannot be dishonest.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Do not be ashamed of help.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Give yourself a gift: the present moment.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, unpretentious, a friend of justice.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Remember that your ruling reason becomes unconquerable when it withdraws into itself.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
Seneca
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Seneca
“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
Seneca
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
Seneca
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Seneca
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
Seneca
“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
Seneca
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
Seneca
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
Seneca
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
Seneca
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
Seneca
“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
Seneca
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
Seneca
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
Seneca
“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
Seneca
“Time discovers truth.”
Seneca
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
Seneca
“If you wished to be loved, love.”
Seneca
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epictetus
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Epictetus
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
Epictetus
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
Epictetus
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
Epictetus
“Only the educated are free.”
Epictetus
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
Epictetus
“You become what you give your attention to.”
Epictetus
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Epictetus
“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
Epictetus
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
Buddha
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”
Buddha
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Buddha
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
Buddha
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
Buddha
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
Buddha
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”
Buddha
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
Buddha
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Buddha
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow verses is one verse that brings peace.”
Buddha
“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
Buddha
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
Buddha
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
Buddha
“Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.”
Buddha
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
Buddha
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the earth.”
Buddha
“The tongue like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
Buddha
“True love is born from understanding.”
Buddha
“With our thoughts we make the world.”
Buddha
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
Buddha
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.”
Buddha
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
Buddha
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
Buddha
“Patience is the supreme virtue.”
Buddha
“The greatest prayer is patience.”
Buddha
“Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”
Buddha
“You only lose what you cling to.”
Buddha
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.”
Buddha
“From a withered tree, a flower blooms.”
Buddha
“For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
Bhagavad Gita
“There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Be thou of even mind, in success and failure.”
Bhagavad Gita
“The soul is neither born, nor does it die.”
Bhagavad Gita
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